And on and on and on it goes. Based on the prices Troll And Toad is quoting for those metagaming titles, i've made anywhere from a 5 to 10% annualized return on each of the items in my microgame collection over the last 30 years. Not a bad little investment!

Sadly, after checking out eBay, I've discovered that a punched version of Ogre went for only $16 at auction, rather than the $70 that Troll And Toad is asking. There go my dreams of selling my microgame collection, buying one of the Thousand Islands, and retiring in style.

@The_Myth: i'm unlikely to sell, as these have far more nostalgia value than dollar value, plus, it's fun to take these gmaes out for a whirl now and then.

@Padre: I'm missing several games (Hitlers War, Trojan War, and several others) that were (1) too expensive for me, back in the day, and (2) were outside of my interests of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Was Trojan War a good game?

Drool... You may not be a wealthy, wealthy man, but you are a lucky, lucky man. I love Metagaming's microgames and I jealously covet your collection. I used to have a lot of those, but not as many as you.

I love the whole microgame ethic ... you've got to pack a lot of gaming goodness into a small package.

This may be why I love the retroclones, its the same philosophy.

It's a great collection. Sadly, I never collected the dwarfstar games, which had a very high production standard. Many of them were too complicated, mind you, but the games themselves were the gold standard for production values.

I've noticed that every time I've gone looking for something, it's been relatively easy to find a copy for half or less of the asking price of places like Troll and Toad. Often more like a fifth of the price.